Now that the Giants have won the World Series, Will Bay Area voters come out of their self-induced marijuana and opium high in time to vote today? If you remember, a few days ago Candlestick Park was engulfed in a haze of pot smoke, to the point that even Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton, a recovering drug abuser, complained about the aroma.

I can tell you that people on twitter are 100% for prop 19. And that’s 100%. I just read prop19 on twitter, hit more 5 times, read maybe 200 or so posts. Every single person on twitter is Yes on Prop 19. No person tweeted anything about any candidate, in a search for prop19.

As someone stated above, liberals usually don't care anything about sports. But aside from that, our only hope here in the Bay area is that San Franciscans will be too demoralized over the projected GOP sweep to go out and vote to keep Pelosi in office - but I wouldn't count on it.

GO GIANTS!!

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posted on 11/02/2010 6:35:37 AM PDT
by tisket
(If someone yells "You Lie" in a room full of politicians, how do they know who he's talking to?)

Hey, now. Don't lump us all into one category. Some of us are far-flung across the country. And besides, even among the local Giants fans, I'd be willing to bet most are more red-blooded American than sports-hating liberals.

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posted on 11/02/2010 6:50:46 AM PDT
by ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)

Actually, if you want liberal sports-fans, I think you go with the Warriors (assuming that is still a franchise). Giants fans are too hardy to be liberal, even if the team has moved to better climate downtown. And I’m a Giants fan and I voted on Oct 14th, basically the very first chance I had. Straight Pubbie ticket here in North Carolina, so it doesn’t turn into Californication Nation East.

The San Francisco Giants merit kudos for one thing at least: their ball park was entirely financed by private borrowing. In one fashion or another, almost every other major league professional sports team has their hand in the public till, thus indirectly transferring wealth from the taxpayers to team owners and players.

i just did another search, and it appears that whoever on twitter is against prop 19 will refer to it as “prop 19”, everyone referring to prop19 is for it. It’s the difference between “prop19” and “prop 19” . It appears that a few drug dealers are worried.

Twitter likes pot, rather than potheads liking twitter. Twitter is pretty popular, and there isn’t too much No on 19 out there in twitterville.

TV reporting that weed could be smelled in the Giants out field during the first two series games was embarrassing for SF and they know it. I think it change allot of minds on passing the weed measure.

This points to a win for prop 19, and likely problems for Fiorina and Whitman.

It doesn’t appear that there’s much of an “enthusiasm gap” in San Fran. All across the country, Dems are demoralized - there’s nothing for them to vote for. Here, they’re honoring the hero pitcher. A reason for them to vote, and instead of working for 8 hours or more, they’re doing nothing but voting.
And, typically, “change” candidates don’t do as well when the home team wins. Winning the World Series “all is well”, not as angry, not wanting change quite as much.

(1) Many SF Giants fans live outside the bay area - in Reagan country.

(2) Of the fans that are SF libs, what do you care if they vote? They will re-elect Pelosi, who will then resign next year when she loses her gavel.

This is one lifelong Giants fan who already voted the GOP ticket by absentee ballot. And my district arguably has the most competitive House race (Harmer) and competitive state Assembly race (Wilson) in the state.

100% correct. The rest of MLB owners hate the Giants because they did not accept one dime of public funding (SF stupidvisors would be outraged if someone took a dollar away from the homeless people).

One of the biggest crimes of the century is taking money from the working stiffs (via taxation) and transferring it to the benefit of wealthy team owners and players. NFL,NBA,MLB and Hockey are highly profitable enterprises, they can afford to build their own stadiums and sell tickets to pay for them.

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